Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett authored an opinion piece on Fox News last week announcing Conservative Leaders for Education, a new group that is calling on conservatives to raise their voices in
the debate around education reform and ESSA.
Not exact matches
With
education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign,
debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced
reforms made during the coalition's time in office.
In the following
debate, Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas's Department of
Education Reform and Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute explore areas of agreement and disagreement
around this issue of school choice and school quality.
Over the past 20 years, many school systems
around the globe have undergone some form of
education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing
debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.
We think of parent trigger not as a new law, but as a new paradigm, as an entirely new way of thinking about public
education and
education reform and a break from the
debate that has dominated the conversation
around education reform for a good part of the last decade.
Today, while much of the discussion about «
Education Reform» revolves
around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the
debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.
You know this when their
debates about
education reform are centered
around teacher rights, and not student rights.
A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives
education policy
debates today revolves
around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering
education reform.